Blog around the world

Good gracious!
My Internet was down during most of the "Blog around the world" event! I can't believe it!
I made a commitment to try this and I figure that better late than never, right? Hey there might be others out there just like me running behind and just now checking out the blogs in different areas. It seems pretty cool so I will condense this all into one blog instead of a couple of different blogs.

1. Location: Southern California. It is warm here, kinda sweaty this summer. I am definitely not a big fan of wet heat.
2. Price of Gas: $3.71 a gallon. This is why we have not gone anywhere far this year. Actually none of our immediate neighbors have either. Way to expensive!
3. Shopping?: Oh we have shopping here! Tons of shopping! There are outlet malls, strip malls (no not with naked people), regular malls, inside malls, outside malls, indoor swap meets, outdoor swap meets, everything! You don't even have to go very far to hit any of these places. Personally I love WalMart and Target and they have those everywhere so I am good.
4. Restaurants: We have rows of restaurants. Italian, Chinese, American, fast food and in our neighborhood we have tons of Mexican restaurants. Our family has a tendency to go to LOUD restaurants. We like Elephant Bar, Chili's and the Islands. With all of our munchkins we need a place that does not mind all the noise we make.

That is our area in a basic nut shell. We are close enough to LA to take advantage of all it has to offer like the museums and the shows. We are also far enough away to not be in all the congestion of living in the Big City. It is really noisy here not like living in the country. There are tons of people so you don't tend to have lots of lifetime friends because people move often. Which means that you can constantly meet new and interesting people. It is convenient to live here if you love to shop or need medical care.That stuff is everywhere! You probably could go through your whole day doing regular things and not run into anyone that you know. It is easy to be anonymous if you need to be. You don't have to look good to run to the grocery store that way too! :) The best thing is we have Disneyland, California Adventure, Knott's Berry Farm, Six Flags Magic Mountain, tons of beaches, mountain hiking (in the winter skiing), dirt bike riding, you name it, we have it!

Come and visit Southern California if you haven't, but don't for get your sunscreen!